Visit The Boston Globe Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Comment on this Scroll to top of page By Thomas Beaumont Associated Press September 21, 2018 Weighing a 2020 campaign for president, former vice president Joe Biden says he should have protected Anita Hill from what he called ‘‘character assassination’’ during the Supreme Court confirmation hearings of Justice Clarence Thomas more than a quarter century ago.Biden chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee during the contentious 1991 hearings. As sexual misconduct again shadows a high court confirmation, Biden said he failed to prevent the all-male committee from putting Hill on the defensive.‘‘Anita Hill was vilified when she came forward, by a lot of my colleagues,’’ Biden said during an interview on NBC’s Today. ‘‘I wish I could have done more to prevent those questions and the way they asked them.’’ Advertisement Biden was … [Read more...] about As he considers 2020, Joe Biden airs regrets of Anita Hill hearings
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Joe Biden, Larry Fitzgerald, others remember John McCain, ‘our country in its true form’
Alden Woods Arizona Republic Published 2:15 p.m. UTC Aug 31, 2018 The sun rose over Arizona, and there was John McCain one last time. His flag-covered casket still sat underneath the Capitol’s copper dome, where an honor guard stood watch, waiting to carry the senator to his state’s final goodbye. They carried him out of the rotunda just after 9 a.m. Thursday, marching past the saluting state troopers and the flags at half-staff. McCain’s family stood at the end of the sidewalk. Together they held hands and watched as the casket disappeared into the back of a hearse, headed toward the church McCain knew so well. Thousands of people had already filled the sanctuary of North Phoenix Baptist Church, which McCain attended for 25 years before his death Saturday. He was 81 years old. Thursday morning’s service, which was not McCain’s official funeral, was the second public event in almost a week of memorials that will continue this weekend in Washington, … [Read more...] about Joe Biden, Larry Fitzgerald, others remember John McCain, ‘our country in its true form’
John McCain memorial: Joe Biden, friends, family honor ‘America’s hero’
Dan Nowicki and Ronald J. Hansen Arizona Republic Published 8:07 p.m. UTC Aug 30, 2018 In a tribute that capped days of mourning in Arizona for John McCain, former Vice President Joe Biden said the senator exemplified values that will endure his passing. Eulogizing his friend, with whom he traveled the world and on whom he leaned in times of personal pain, Biden spoke of the "McCain code," values forged during his days in the Navy and lived every day afterward. Values that Biden said will endure. With his voice rising inside the cavernous North Phoenix Baptist Church, Biden rejected the notion that McCain's death reflects the end of an era. "Things have changed so much in America, they look at him as if John came from another age because he lived by a different code, an ancient, antiquated code where honor, courage, character, integrity, duty mattered," Biden said. "The truth is John's code was ageless, is ageless. It wasn't about politics with John. You … [Read more...] about John McCain memorial: Joe Biden, friends, family honor ‘America’s hero’
John McCain: Why Joe Biden will eulogize his longtime friend. ‘If he needed my personal help, I’d go’
Nicole Gaudiano USA TODAY Published 2:40 p.m. UTC Aug 30, 2018 WASHINGTON – Former Vice President Joe Biden said it caused him "some consternation" in 2008 to find himself on opposing presidential tickets with his longtime friend and Senate colleague John McCain, then the GOP nominee. Chosen as the running mate to Democrat Barack Obama, Biden was expected to fulfill the traditional role of a vice presidential candidate – serving as an attack dog. He did just that, slamming McCain as "profoundly out of touch" on the economy in a speech in Michigan in September 2008. But in the same speech, Biden talked about his friendship with McCain, saying, "If he needed my personal help, I’d go." Nearly a decade later, Biden kept that promise. As McCain battled a deadly brain cancer last year, he and his family turned to the former vice president for comfort. In an on-camera moment on ABC's "The View" that went viral, Biden comforted McCain's … [Read more...] about John McCain: Why Joe Biden will eulogize his longtime friend. ‘If he needed my personal help, I’d go’
Joe Biden, Barack Obama & ‘Detective Capriotti’ star in murder mystery ‘Hope Never Dies’
Ryan Cormier Delaware News Journal Published 1:28 p.m. UTC Jul 23, 2018 When it came time to name one of the major characters in his new Joe Biden/Barack Obama murder mystery, author Andrew Shaffer leaned on his months of Biden research. He remembered seeing photos of the then-vice president making a surprise appearance at the Washington, D.C. opening of the District's first Capriotti's Sandwich Shop in 2013. That was when Wilmington Police Det. Dan Capriotti was born. "It was such a strange little thing that he went to a store opening. So instead of putting the actual sandwich shop in the book, I named a character after them," Shaffer, 39, who is based in Kentucky. "I don't think a lot of people will get it, but the people who do will laugh." It's just one of many First State nods in the newly-released 301-page novel "Hope Never Dies" (Quirk Books, $14.99), which tracks the Obama/Biden bromance after they leave The White House … [Read more...] about Joe Biden, Barack Obama & ‘Detective Capriotti’ star in murder mystery ‘Hope Never Dies’